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UltimateBet Hires
Annie Duke to Manage
New Poker Tournament
Schedule
Online poker site
recruits world poker
champion to enhance
tournament schedule
and overall poker
offering
Leading online poker
site
www.ultimatebet.com
today announced a
groundbreaking new
poker tournament
schedule while
welcoming one of the
world’s greatest
poker professionals
as its new poker
room Consultant. The
online poker site
has taken the bold
step of handing over
the management of
its tournament
schedule to Annie
Duke.
“Annie Duke has a
proven track record
of not only playing
the game, but also
knowing exactly what
online poker players
want to see in a
tournament
schedule,” stated
UltimateBet.com
spokesperson George
MacLean. “We’re
confident that her
unparalleled insight
will significantly
enhance our poker
offering and
strengthen our
online poker
community.”
The world series of
poker champion is no
stranger to the
UltimateBet brand.
Duke was a key
player in designing
the UltimateBet
software and was a
consultant for the
poker room several
years ago. She is
excited to be back
on board to build a
schedule that will
attract old and new
players to the site.
“I opted to accept
the poker room
Consultant position
after spending time
with UltimateBet’s
new senior
management team,”
notes Duke. “I am
extraordinarily
pleased with their
commitment to
wanting what’s best
for the poker player
and I have a renewed
sense of enthusiasm
in the future of
UltimateBet.”
Highlights of the
new schedule, to be
launched on April 28th,
include:
• New Sniper
tournaments with
massive guarantees
• $1.2 million in
weekly guarantees
• Nightly DeepStack
tournaments
featuring longer
blind levels where
players start with
5,000 chips for
tourneys with
buy-ins of $100+9
and above, and 3,000
starting chips for
tourneys with
buy-ins under $100+9
• New Short, Super
Short, and Mega
Short Stack
satellites allow
online poker fans to
qualify so many new
ways, all the way up
to one half hour
before an event
• Lots of ways for
players to qualify
for their WSOP* seat
– including a 3-seat
guaranteed
tournament on Sunday
and a 25-seat and
50-seat guaranteed
event
• New $1 Turbo Rebuy
$5,000 guaranteed
tournament where
poker fans can win
their seat for as
little as 6 cents
• New Sit and Go
satellites for all
major events on the
site
• $200,000
guaranteed
tournament every
Sunday
Online poker players
can also expect a
host of new
promotions and
leader board
competitions that
will solidify
UltimateBet.com as
the most exciting,
most lucrative place
for Texas Holdem
fans to hone their
game.
More information on
the new tournament
schedule can be
found at
www.ultimatebet.com.
About UltimateBet
Designed with the
assistance of the
best poker players
in the world - Phil
Hellmuth and Annie
Duke – UltimateBet
provides the best
poker games
available on the
net. Players can
download the free
poker software, play
in free ring games
and tournaments and
get tips from these
pros to learn the
sport or to enhance
their playing
strategy.
UltimateBet
currently has over 2
million registered
players.
*World Series of
Poker and WSOP are
trademarks of
Harrah's License
Company, LLC
("Harrah's").
Harrah's does not
sponsor or endorse,
and is not
associated or
affiliated with,
UltimateBet or its
products, services,
promotions or
tournaments. |
